News of Latin For Beginners by D'Ooge

I was reviewing some earlier chapters when I came across this sentence:

Legionarii Romani pilis longis armati sunt.

Is pilis longis dative or ablative? I'm confused whether this would be an ablative of means or an adjective related with dative (i.e. grata + Germano = pleasing to the German).

I seem to have had a problem sending out emails to the D'Ooge group mailing list, also I am not sure if anyone is still working their way through the book. If not, I might get back onto the job of checking the new key. This could run for the 1st 30 chapters of D'Ooge and could be used as a "beginners course". I have been adding notes as I do the answers so these ...

Regarding that exercise,
The judges commanded the savages to be seized and to be killed.
Iudices barbari occupare et interficere iusserunt?
Is occupare supposed to be used?

Hello all,

As a beginner, i’ve got a few questions on ‘classical’ or ‘golden age’ pronunciation. I downloaded Dooge’s Latin for Beginners, and the pronunciation seems reasonably clear (except it doesn’t mention how to pronounce the vowel Y), but as I really want to get my pronunciation correct (or at least close to accurate) I wanted to hear how these words and letters were sounded. After a quick look through this site I found a ...

Hello All,

Well.....

At the school I go to we are allowed to print up to $20 worth of material per year. I had ended the year with far less than that, so on a whim, I printed the entire D'Ooge grammar, with the answer key. I then promptly took it down to the copy center, where for the small sum of $1.35 they bound it for me between two heavy duty plastic sleaves.

So ...

Greetings all -

Am new to this site, and have been studying D'Ooge for a couple of weeks now. Also, on the advice of some here, bought the "Lingua Latina" to help as a reader. Am enjoying this challenge immensely, but have noticed its not nearly as easy learning a new language as it was 30 years ago in high school. lol

Anyway, the problem that bothers me the most is not being able to ...

I have recently been culling books from my library and I ran across an old school text that I picked up about ten years ago. It is a 1905 edition of D'Ooge's Viri Romae. This is D'Ooge's shorthand for a book known in Europe as Selections from Urbis Romae Viri Inlustres. Apparently, it was in use from the mid-Eighteenth century until the beginning of the last as a bridge between second-year Latin and the reading ...

Those of you who use D'Ooge may be interested to see that Project Gutenberg has posted an HTML version - it also has links to the vocab section and may be useful for leaving on your laptop as it is a bit "skinnier" than the PDF.

Link is http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/18251

Is D'Ooge's designed to be a preparation for reading Caesar's Gallic Wars, or just Caesar in general (pun not intended, but I'll take it)?

Rusticus

Saluēte omnēs,

I would like to ask for help with the following phrase of with the reading matter at page 212 of the book

http://www.textkit.com/files/BLD_Latin_ ... f#page=222

“Saepe erat cum patre in cÅ«riÄ￾; quae rÄ“s effÄ“cit ut summÅ￾s reÄ« pÅ«blicae virÅ￾s et audÄ«ret et vidÄ“ret.â€￾

where I’m having some difficulty in understand.

The first part is easy, “He often was with his father at the Curia,…â€￾

But after that ...